HORSE HEAD ARCHIVED IMAGE. 11-9-04 12:22:35 UT
After finding the horse head nebula on an archive I achieved great images after changing the minimum to the top of the black graph in the brightness contrast section on salsa and changing brightness to a little lower and then moving the maximum bar to the left most of the way. I eventually just put all the raw images in maxim and then fixed the brightness there with what I know to be the quick stretch feature in Maxim, to do this what I did was hold shift and moving the mouse left and right changes contrast and up and down changes the brightness. so it was easier to use the change to color feature and to make the nebula a true color. Then i put this image in Gimp and changed the saturation up and hue to a more pinkish color. (Luminance, 70 min, 5-min subs)(14 frames) (Red, 25 min, 5-min subs)(5 frames) (Green, 25 min, 5-min subs)(5 Frames) (Blue, 25 min, 5-min subs)(5 Frames) (Total exposure time 145 min, 29 Frames) The credit of this images goes to Misti Mountain Observatory, that is where the 4 raw images for this photo came from.
Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
Also here is the grayscale.
Omega Centari 1-1-09 12:26:28 UT
Found a new way to do images with Maxim To do this I combine all reds with auto star correlation function under combine files also the medium setting. After doing this for all 3 colors I then combine them with the cross combine button. Then once they are together you convert them to an rgb image. Then using the color balance function you can pick the weight of each layer instead of doing this to each image individually. This works much better, now I need to find a great way to do this on a non rgb image. (Red 200 sec 10 sec subs)(20 Frames) (Blue 200 sec 10 sec subs)(20 Frames) (Green 200 sec 10 sec subs)(20 Frames) (Total Exposure Time 600 sec, 60 Frames) Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Sombrero Galaxy Stack 11-21-08 14:28:36 UT
The stack worked this time and after setting the screen stretch to medium I also used the low pass unsharp mask filter setting and changed the brightness with the quick stretch option, I did all of this in Maxim. (Luminosity 120 sec 10 sec subs)(12 Frames) (Total Exposure Time 120 sec, 12 Frames) Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Jupiter 1/25/12 4:49:15 UT
Learned the stack function on SalsaJ and stack 1 of each color image.
Today I tried to stack all the photos with MaxIm but for some reason it was not working and giving me a all bright picture, the planet was an overexposed blob.
Figured out my brightness problem, I had to go through all my images band found that the telescope must not have been tracking because I got extremely bright images where all the brightness was all on the left side so once I got rid of the bad images if somewhat fixed itself. but it is now completely getting rid of the dark parts so I have lines.
I just found out that I will be getting more images of Jupiter to help hopefully with my detail problem. (Red 1.76 sec .01 sec subs) (Green 1.76 sec .01 sec subs) (Blue 1.76 sec .01 sec subs) (Total Exposure Time 5.28 sec, 528 Frames). Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Helix Nebula 12-25-10 1:35:54 UT
For this image what I did was combine all the reds and all the greens and all the blues and all the luminances. Then i made a composite RGB image with Image j and then took my rgb and luminance image into Maxim. I had to resize the rgb to the same of the luminance image or else they wouldn't stack. so i stacked them with the combine function on Maxim and then i took it into gimp and adjusted the hue and saturaion and got this neat image of the Helix Nebula. Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona. (Red 420 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames) (Green 420 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames) (Blue 420 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames) (Luminance 450 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames) (Total Exposure 1710 sec Total Frames 140)
North America Nebula
This is my five piece Mosaic image of the North American nebula with photos from ImageShack.com
To make this nebula I had to start by crop off all the small black edges with crop function. Then you need to have a picture of what your object really looks like in outer space so you know if you need to flip or mirror the image, in this case all I had to do was mirror the image. Then you go to File on Maxim click New and make a 2500 by 3500 blank image. Then you look at all your pictures and you equalize the screen stretch, after this you will move to the center of this blank image and go to edit Mosaic and chose your first picture, click place then blend, then place ur next image over that one and then i moved it to match up the stars as much as possible and click snap which will finish lining up the stars and click blend. You dothis for all of the images and then you crop the image to the right size and then I adjusted brightness and hue and saturation in photoshop. These images are from ImageShack.com and they do not list time, date, exposure, or filters used to take these images.
Moon 3-8-12 9:00
THIS WAS THE BEST I COULD DO WITH THE SCREEN STRETCH FUNCTION ON Maxim DL, I tried to get the overexposed part to show. This was taken around 9:00 on April 8th at Grosse Pointe North High School through my 8 inch dobsonian zhumell telescope and Mrs. Herrolds Nikon dslr Camera.
Comet Garrad 9:15:05 UT
I stacked all the reds and greens then blues and put them in maxim and adjusted the curves. I then stacked them and tried to see what I could to the color and this was the best I could get. (Red 640 sec 16 sec subs)(40 Frames) (Blue 640 sec 16 sec subs)(40 Frames) (Green 640 sec 16 sec subs)(40 Frames) (Total Exposure Time 1920 sec, 120 Frames) Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Andromeda Galaxy 4/16/12 21:27:09 UT
I started by adjusting the brightness of the image to get more of the galaxy to show in image j. Then using image j i crated a composite image of the andromeda galaxy. the color came out a little green with outer weird rings of color around the galaxy. I got those to go mostly away in gimp by selecting them with the magic wand tool and making the levels for that part go way down. Then I upped the blue curves of the image with gimp and I finally finised off with two unsharp masks which really brought out the dust lanes in the image.
The credit of this images goes to Misti Mountain Observatory, that is where the 4 raw images for this photo came from.
Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
QUARTER 4
Trifid Nebula 6-22-10 8:37:50 UT
I stacked all of the reds greens and blues with maxim. After then creating the composite image of it I adjusted the color balances and then I used photoshop functions such as burn to make the black lines come out. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain telescope. (Luminosity 170 seconds, 17 images) (Red 320 seconds, 16 images) (Green 320 seconds, 16 images) (Blue 320 seconds, 16 Images) Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Hubble's Variable Nebula 1-20-09 9:45:30 UT
For this image I had to stack all the images like normal with Maxim. Then I had to adjust color just a little bit. Then I brought this into gimp and used the dodge tool to get the extended arm out a little. I also brought the brightness of the center down a little to make the nebula look a little more transparent. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain telescope.
(Luminosity 170 seconds, 16 images) (Red 240 seconds, 15 images) (Green 240 seconds, 15 images) (Blue 240 seconds, 15 Images) Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy 3-30-08 9:37:25 UT
To create this image I had to stack all the images with Maxim, then I used gimp to first unsharp mask by keeping the amount setting at about .50 and the radius near about 4. Then after adjusting hue and saturation I was able to get some of the emission nebula to show up better. Although the center is bright the stetch function on Maxim helped pull out the dim areas a little bit better. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain telescope.
(Luminosity 60 seconds, 2 images) (Red 140 seconds, 7 images) (Green 140 seconds, 7 images) (Blue 140 seconds, 7 Images) Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Moon 5-4-12 9:00 This image was from a video put through registax, after wavelet function I moved it to gimp and adjusted the curve functions and this is what it came to. I also tried to sharpen up this image with maxims unsharp mask function. I also tried to mess with stretch and it got the rays to come out a little better. And after a crop it came out nice. The video was taken by the 10 inch schmidt at school.
About 10 minutes of video.
Lagoon Nebula 6-5-12 9:36:07 UT I started by combining all the images from the different filters. Then I adjusted curves and levels to bring out the nebula more. After that I moved it to gimp and adjusted color and saturation to get this image. I also cropped the bad edges out. This image was taken by Mrs.Herrold 14 inch schmidt cassegrain.
(Luminosity 120 seconds, 15 images) (Red 240 seconds, 15 images) (Green 240 seconds, 15 images) (Blue 240 seconds, 15 Images) Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
M7 Ptolemy Cluster 4-18-09 11:51:21 UT This image was easy. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain. This was take under red, green, blue and clear filters. I stacked all These Images with maxim and then adjusted color balance with that function in Maxim. The color did come out a little but I guess star clusters are not supposed to be super colorful anyway.
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Transit of Venus 6-5-12 6:45 This image is one image taken from my Iphone through a Meade ten inch telescope with a solar filter on it. I took this to gimp because it messed up when i entered it into maxim. I adjusted levels to keep the backround black and I adjusted curves which helped bring out the sunspots. This was taken at North high school.
After finding the horse head nebula on an archive I achieved great images after changing the minimum to the top of the black graph in the brightness contrast section on salsa and changing brightness to a little lower and then moving the maximum bar to the left most of the way. I eventually just put all the raw images in maxim and then fixed the brightness there with what I know to be the quick stretch feature in Maxim, to do this what I did was hold shift and moving the mouse left and right changes contrast and up and down changes the brightness. so it was easier to use the change to color feature and to make the nebula a true color. Then i put this image in Gimp and changed the saturation up and hue to a more pinkish color.
(Luminance, 70 min, 5-min subs)(14 frames)
(Red, 25 min, 5-min subs)(5 frames)
(Green, 25 min, 5-min subs)(5 Frames)
(Blue, 25 min, 5-min subs)(5 Frames)
(Total exposure time 145 min, 29 Frames)
The credit of this images goes to Misti Mountain Observatory, that is where the 4 raw images for this photo came from.
Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
Also here is the grayscale.
Omega Centari 1-1-09 12:26:28 UT
Found a new way to do images with Maxim To do this I combine all reds with auto star correlation function under combine files also the medium setting. After doing this for all 3 colors I then combine them with the cross combine button. Then once they are together you convert them to an rgb image. Then using the color balance function you can pick the weight of each layer instead of doing this to each image individually. This works much better, now I need to find a great way to do this on a non rgb image.
(Red 200 sec 10 sec subs)(20 Frames)
(Blue 200 sec 10 sec subs) (20 Frames)
(Green 200 sec 10 sec subs) (20 Frames)
(Total Exposure Time 600 sec, 60 Frames)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Sombrero Galaxy Stack 11-21-08 14:28:36 UT
The stack worked this time and after setting the screen stretch to medium I also used the low pass unsharp mask filter setting and changed the brightness with the quick stretch option, I did all of this in Maxim.
(Luminosity 120 sec 10 sec subs)(12 Frames)
(Total Exposure Time 120 sec, 12 Frames)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Jupiter 1/25/12 4:49:15 UT
Learned the stack function on SalsaJ and stack 1 of each color image.
Today I tried to stack all the photos with MaxIm but for some reason it was not working and giving me a all bright picture, the planet was an overexposed blob.
Figured out my brightness problem, I had to go through all my images band found that the telescope must not have been tracking because I got extremely bright images where all the brightness was all on the left side so once I got rid of the bad images if somewhat fixed itself. but it is now completely getting rid of the dark parts so I have lines.
I just found out that I will be getting more images of Jupiter to help hopefully with my detail problem.
(Red 1.76 sec .01 sec subs)
(Green 1.76 sec .01 sec subs)
(Blue 1.76 sec .01 sec subs)
(Total Exposure Time 5.28 sec, 528 Frames).
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Helix Nebula 12-25-10 1:35:54 UT
For this image what I did was combine all the reds and all the greens and all the blues and all the luminances. Then i made a composite RGB image with Image j and then took my rgb and luminance image into Maxim. I had to resize the rgb to the same of the luminance image or else they wouldn't stack. so i stacked them with the combine function on Maxim and then i took it into gimp and adjusted the hue and saturaion and got this neat image of the Helix Nebula.
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
(Red 420 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames)
(Green 420 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames)
(Blue 420 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames)
(Luminance 450 sec, 12 sec subs)(35 frames)
(Total Exposure 1710 sec Total Frames 140)
North America Nebula
This is my five piece Mosaic image of the North American nebula with photos from ImageShack.com
To make this nebula I had to start by crop off all the small black edges with crop function. Then you need to have a picture of what your object really looks like in outer space so you know if you need to flip or mirror the image, in this case all I had to do was mirror the image. Then you go to File on Maxim click New and make a 2500 by 3500 blank image. Then you look at all your pictures and you equalize the screen stretch, after this you will move to the center of this blank image and go to edit Mosaic and chose your first picture, click place then blend, then place ur next image over that one and then i moved it to match up the stars as much as possible and click snap which will finish lining up the stars and click blend. You dothis for all of the images and then you crop the image to the right size and then I adjusted brightness and hue and saturation in photoshop.
These images are from ImageShack.com and they do not list time, date, exposure, or filters used to take these images.
Moon 3-8-12 9:00
THIS WAS THE BEST I COULD DO WITH THE SCREEN STRETCH FUNCTION ON Maxim DL, I tried to get the overexposed part to show.
This was taken around 9:00 on April 8th at Grosse Pointe North High School through my 8 inch dobsonian zhumell telescope and Mrs. Herrolds Nikon dslr Camera.
Comet Garrad 9:15:05 UT
I stacked all the reds and greens then blues and put them in maxim and adjusted the curves. I then stacked them and tried to see what I could to the color and this was the best I could get.
(Red 640 sec 16 sec subs)(40 Frames)
(Blue 640 sec 16 sec subs) (40 Frames)
(Green 640 sec 16 sec subs) (40 Frames)
(Total Exposure Time 1920 sec, 120 Frames)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Andromeda Galaxy 4/16/12 21:27:09 UT
I started by adjusting the brightness of the image to get more of the galaxy to show in image j. Then using image j i crated a composite image of the andromeda galaxy. the color came out a little green with outer weird rings of color around the galaxy. I got those to go mostly away in gimp by selecting them with the magic wand tool and making the levels for that part go way down. Then I upped the blue curves of the image with gimp and I finally finised off with two unsharp masks which really brought out the dust lanes in the image.
(Luminance, 60 min, 5-min subs)(12 Frames)
(Red, 20 min, 5-min subs)(4 frames)
(Green, 20 min, 5-min subs) (4 frames)
(Blue, 20 min, 5-min subs) (4 frames)
(Total Exposure Time 120 minutes, 24 frames)
The credit of this images goes to Misti Mountain Observatory, that is where the 4 raw images for this photo came from.
Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
SBIG STL-11000 CCD camera
QUARTER 4
Trifid Nebula 6-22-10 8:37:50 UT
I stacked all of the reds greens and blues with maxim. After then creating the composite image of it I adjusted the color balances and then I used photoshop functions such as burn to make the black lines come out. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain telescope.
(Luminosity 170 seconds, 17 images)
(Red 320 seconds, 16 images)
(Green 320 seconds, 16 images)
(Blue 320 seconds, 16 Images)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Hubble's Variable Nebula 1-20-09 9:45:30 UT
For this image I had to stack all the images like normal with Maxim. Then I had to adjust color just a little bit. Then I brought this into gimp and used the dodge tool to get the extended arm out a little. I also brought the brightness of the center down a little to make the nebula look a little more transparent. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain telescope.
(Luminosity 170 seconds, 16 images)
(Red 240 seconds, 15 images)
(Green 240 seconds, 15 images)
(Blue 240 seconds, 15 Images)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy 3-30-08 9:37:25 UT
To create this image I had to stack all the images with Maxim, then I used gimp to first unsharp mask by keeping the amount setting at about .50 and the radius near about 4. Then after adjusting hue and saturation I was able to get some of the emission nebula to show up better. Although the center is bright the stetch function on Maxim helped pull out the dim areas a little bit better. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain telescope.
(Luminosity 60 seconds, 2 images)
(Red 140 seconds, 7 images)
(Green 140 seconds, 7 images)
(Blue 140 seconds, 7 Images)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Moon 5-4-12 9:00
This image was from a video put through registax, after wavelet function I moved it to gimp and adjusted the curve functions and this is what it came to. I also tried to sharpen up this image with maxims unsharp mask function. I also tried to mess with stretch and it got the rays to come out a little better. And after a crop it came out nice. The video was taken by the 10 inch schmidt at school.
About 10 minutes of video.
Lagoon Nebula 6-5-12 9:36:07 UT
I started by combining all the images from the different filters. Then I adjusted curves and levels to bring out the nebula more. After that I moved it to gimp and adjusted color and saturation to get this image. I also cropped the bad edges out. This image was taken by Mrs.Herrold 14 inch schmidt cassegrain.
(Luminosity 120 seconds, 15 images)
(Red 240 seconds, 15 images)
(Green 240 seconds, 15 images)
(Blue 240 seconds, 15 Images)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
M7 Ptolemy Cluster 4-18-09 11:51:21 UT
This image was easy. This was taken by Mrs.Herrolds 14 inch schmidt cassagrain. This was take under red, green, blue and clear filters. I stacked all These Images with maxim and then adjusted color balance with that function in Maxim. The color did come out a little but I guess star clusters are not supposed to be super colorful anyway.
(Luminosity 60 seconds, 10 images)
(Red 60 seconds, 10 images)
(Green 60 seconds, 10 images)
(Blue 60 seconds, 10 Images)
Taken with a Meade 14" SC with a SBIG SME ST-402ME CCD at Desert Peak Observatory in Arizona.
Transit of Venus 6-5-12 6:45
This image is one image taken from my Iphone through a Meade ten inch telescope with a solar filter on it. I took this to gimp because it messed up when i entered it into maxim. I adjusted levels to keep the backround black and I adjusted curves which helped bring out the sunspots. This was taken at North high school.